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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to reporting to the legislature by certain river |
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authorities. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Title 5, Water Code, is amended by designating |
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Chapter 152 as Subtitle A and adding a subtitle heading to read as |
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follows: |
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SUBTITLE A. RIVER AUTHORITIES |
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SECTION 2. Subtitle A, Title 5, Water Code, as added by this |
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Act, is amended by adding Chapter 150 to read as follows: |
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CHAPTER 150. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO RIVER AUTHORITIES |
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Sec. 150.0101. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: |
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(1) "Committee" means the standing committee of the |
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senate with jurisdiction over water. |
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(2) "River authority" means a district created under |
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the authority of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, as a |
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regional water management entity to provide water development and |
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planning services and other services to a river basin or portion of |
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a river basin. |
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Sec. 150.0102. REPORT. (a) In November of the sixth year |
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after the year in which the Sunset Advisory Commission completed a |
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review of a river authority, the river authority shall deliver a |
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report to the committee that explains changes to the river |
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authority's rules made since the review by the Sunset Advisory |
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Commission and the consequences of those changes. |
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(b) The committee may compel testimony by a representative |
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of the river authority regarding the subject of the report in the |
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same way the committee may compel testimony from a representative |
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of a state agency. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |